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We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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My art and profession is to live.
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Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
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Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world yet all this is but One.
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Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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I have seen people rude by being over-polite.
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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
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Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.
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Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.
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Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.
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There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.
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Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
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